VMware Tools in Kali Linux Should you decide to create your own VMware installation of Kali Linux rather than using our pre-made VMware images, you will need to follow the instructions below in order to successfully install VMware Tools in your Kali installation. Installing VMware Tools in Kali Linux Rolling As of Sept 2015, VMware recommends using the distribution-specific open-vm-tools (OVT)instead of the VMware Tools package for guest machines. To install open-vm-tools in Kali, first m...